Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Dietrix's account of the murders agrees in the main with other reports, but sheds new light upon the unlovely incident. Hitherto no one has been able to explain the discovery of the religious icons which were found some distance away from the pyre upon which the bodies were burnt, and the failure of various investigators to find any teeth among the ashes. The icons, which were worn around the necks of the Imperial Family, were evidently displaced by the act of decapitation and the missing teeth were carried away with the heads. That the heads...
...National History. Leaving Peking last Spring they went to the railroad's end beyond Kalgan in the Khingan mountains. By motor they passed through the gateway of Inner Mongolia and across the Gobi Desert, 1,000 miles. Some went to Urga, present capital of Mongolia; Andrews and the main party turned south to the Altai ranges to fossil fields located last season when the skull of Baluchitherium, giant primitive rhinoceros, was discovered...
...200th anniversary year of the death of Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's Cathedral, Chelsea Hospital, Hampton Palace, London, was celebrated on Oct. 20 (Wren's birthday) at William and Mary College, Virginia. Wren designed the main building of the College-his only work in America. Cass Gilbert, distinguished architect of the Woolworth Building, made the principal address...
...Transcript, in its leading news item, has revealed a very important fact which the CRIMSON reporter missed. The Transcript has found what the purpose of the Harvard Klan really is. Their program is not one of tar and feathers, neither are whipping parties for the assistant deans contemplated. "The main object of the Klan at Harvard is to institute compulsory chapel." This article has brought a vast amount of relief to Cambridge, for terrible as the prospect of compulsory chapel may be, yet it is mild compared with those things which we usually associate with the Ku Klux Klan. Yesterday...
...Howe's faculty are two members of the class of 1923. Phillips E. Wilson and Eliot G. Fay. The main building has been named after Dean Shaler and another after Frank Bolles...